Collection
Horapollo Neiloos. Horapollinis Hieroglyphica Graece & Latine... Observationibus & Notis Joann. Merceri & David. Hoeschelii, et selectis Nicolai Causiini. Curante Joanne Cornelio de Pauw... [Utrecht], Melchior. Leonardus Charlois, 1727.
The first edition of the Hieroglyphica was printed by Aldus in Venice in 1505 in a volume containing myths by Aesopus and Gavria. The Hieroglyphica were composed by Horapollon from Neilopolis, Egypt, a writer of the fifth century ad, initially in the Coptic language, rendered in Greek by a certain Philippos otherwise unknown. It is a treatise relative to reading hieroglyphs but rather misleading.
Format:
20 cm
Page description:
pp. [18]+404+10 unn
References:
Hoffmann II, 385
Entity:
Renaissance – Humanism
Item Type:
Book